Re: word spam
YUWONO BUDI (yuwono@uxmail.ust.hk)
Tue, 16 Apr 1996 13:50:51 +0800 (HKT)
> >posix AND NOT (posix.pl)
>
> This still gets 20,000 hits!
>
> Yes, you can correct this particular case with a revised query; but,
> wouldn't it be nice if the search engines were a little smarter about the
> context of the word in the document?
>
> As another example, try searching for "HTML". AltaVista gets 900,000
> matches. I have yet to find a query for documents about HTML which works on
> any of the search engines. For example, excluding "(HTML)" excludes all
> documents!
>
> I had one heck of a time finding the RFC for HTTP because of this.
Try visualizing what you expect to see while typing the keywords,
hopefully the search engine will pick up the vibration :-)
Or you could simply type in: "HTML specification", or spell it out
"hypertext markup language"
Seriously, single-word queries rarely work.
-Bude.